Herbert Monte Levy

Herbert Monte Levy, a graduate of Columbia College and Columbia University School of Law, was an editor of the Columbia Law Review. He has frequently lectured on appellate practice for Practising Law Institute, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and New York County Lawyers’ Association. He was Co-Chairman of the New York County Lawyers’ Association’s course on appellate practice on the four occasions it was given, in 1975, 1979, 1983, and 1988. He has briefed and argued appeals in both state and federal appellate courts, at all levels and in many states, and has had extensive trial experience, particularly in cases destined for appeal. As Staff Counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union from 1949 to 1956, Mr. Levy supervised hundreds of appeals. Mr. Levy has served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Bar Association of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut (now the Federal Bar Council), and was formerly Chairman of its Bill of Rights Committee. He is presently a member of the New York County Lawyers’ Association’s Appellate Courts Committee. He is former Counsel to the First Amendment Lawyers’ Association. Mr. Levy is the author of various legal articles, including the book-length “Justice—After Trial,” which appeared in New York Law Forum, Volume 11, Numbers 2 and 3 (1965).